A.D.A. Amiga Demoscene Archive

Note: I'm not saying that "not going for the 1st prize" isn't serious (or cool!), there's not even a connection there. Cool stuff can be simple, "difficult" stuff can be uninteresting, etcetcetc...
*But* if you know that the stuff you're working on is very simple from a technical perspective then you should absolutely try to add *something* to make your release more interesting than the millions of scrollers, dotcubes and tunnels we've seen before.

Perhaps I release something on Solskogen. Will bring my Natami prototype and a amiga600. 1mb chip. I have some effects. Need to create a object generator, and other borring stuff. My demo will look like codercolors without timings and the finishing touches. I miss the design and the coolness of f.ex. Norwegian Kindness and We are lucy. That is why I don't release anything. having a fast poligon stream running on the screen is not enough. You need somebody with artistic skills as well.

Angry Retired Bastard:

After you quit working for ARM your demos got alot bether. What happened? ;)

Well, between the first half of 2004 (Hog and Dance Extravaganza) and Norwegian Kindness in 2011 I didn't release any proper demos at all (only 1-day partyhacks with recycled code and blurfucked anims), so I'd rather say that "I started coding again" (rather than "did something to improve the quality"...).
I think NK followed on quite nicely from where Dark Helmets and Hog left off, but obviously: the 4 years of full-time work coding 2004-2008 probably helped a bit, even though none of that was 68k/amiga-related. :)

And of course: not working around the clock (and the world) provided a bit more time to experiment with new ideas.

Hey sp_ and what's new on your A500 demo? :) Any progress?

yes. I think it will be released by Cryptoburners in 2014

sp> are you skjeggspir?

He claims to be. We'll believe him when the demo is out! ;)